By choosing a number of different flowers and shrubs that are feed on by butterflies you will ensure that butterflies visit your garden. Even in a small area you can make a bright, diverse, and colorful butterfly friendly garden that is attractive throughout the growing season. Butterflies need food (nectar plants), cover, water, and plants to lay their eggs on.

When putting together a butterfly garden or improving your local area to be more suitable habitat for butterflies, plan ahead. Determine what environmental conditions you have: soil type and light conditions will dictate which plants are best for your area. Try to proved some areas within your garden that are sheltered from wind so the butterflies can rest and feed with out being blown about. For most plants that attractive butterflies, at least six hours of direct sunlight each day is best, but some plants will grow in areas with less.

Group your plants in large diverse plantings; this will optimize the gardens display and attraction for butterflies. The butterflies will be able to locate your plants from a longer distance away and will more likely find some plants that they like and stay longer. Use plants that vary in color, size, and their season of bloom. Provide a variety of plants that have flowers with different flower shapes. Butterflies have varying lengths of tongues, which are called proboscises, which determine the flowers they can best feed from.

Good butterfly gardens also have cover and shelter to protect the butterflies during windy weather, or when predators come into the area. Broad-leaved trees, shrubs, tall grasses, and piles of sticks and logs are suitable shelter areas. Since butterflies are insect, which relay on the sun to warm their bodies, several sunbathing perches in open and sunny areas throughout the garden will be welcomed by most butterflies. Water sources, which can include, ponds, birdbaths, pans, and buckets are most welcome by butterflies and will provide needed water. If mud is also availed it can provide some needed nutrients.

Plants for Butterflies

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Agastache 'Blue Delight' $2.00	Agastache 'Hardy Mix' $2.00	Agastache foeniculum 'Blue Spike' $1.85	Agastache foeniculum 'Golden Jubilee' $2.99
Agastache nepetoides $1.65 Sorry, we are currently sold out of 'Agastache nepetoides'.	Agastache pallidiflora $2.75	Agastache rugosa $2.00 Sorry, we are currently sold out of 'Agastache rugosa'.	Agastache rugosa 'Alba' $2.00
Agastache rupestris $2.50	Agastache scrophulariifolia 'Blue Licorice' $2.95	Agastache scrophulariifolia 'White Licorice' $2.00 Sorry, we are currently sold out of 'Agastache scrophulariifolia 'White Licorice''.	Agastache urticifolia $1.95
Alcea ficifolia 'Happy Lights' $2.50 Sorry, we are currently sold out of 'Alcea ficifolia 'Happy Lights''.	Alcea ficifolia hybrids 'Mixed Colors' $2.50	Alcea rosea 'Chater's Double Bright Pink' $1.95 Sorry, we are currently sold out of 'Alcea rosea 'Chater's Double Bright Pink''.	Alcea rosea 'Chater's Double Golden Yellow' $1.95 Sorry, we are currently sold out of 'Alcea rosea 'Chater's Double Golden Yellow''.
Alcea rosea 'Chater's Double Light Scarlet' $1.95 In Stock	Alcea rosea 'Chater's Double Maroon' $1.95	Alcea rosea 'Chater's Double Mix' $1.95	Alcea rosea 'Chater's Double Violet' $1.95 Sorry, we are currently sold out of 'Alcea rosea 'Chater's Double Violet''.
Alcea rosea 'Chater's Double White' $1.95	Alcea rosea 'Chater's Double jet Violet' $2.65	Alcea rosea 'Majorette Champagne' $2.20	Alcea rosea 'Pastorale' $1.95 Sorry, we are currently sold out of 'Alcea rosea 'Pastorale''.
Alcea rosea 'Peaches'N Dreams' $2.69	Alcea rosea 'Queeny Purple' $2.35	Alcea rosea 'Summer Carnival Mixed' $2.00	Alcea rosea nigra 'Black Beauty' $1.95
Alcea rosea plena 'Chaters Magnificent Mix' $2.00 Sorry, we are currently sold out of 'Alcea rosea plena 'Chaters Magnificent Mix''.	Alcea rosea plena 'Chaters Violet' $2.00	Allium senescens 'Late Selection' $2.00 In Stock	Allium senescens 'Tanguticum' $1.55
Allium senescens ssp. montanum $2.99	Angelica gigas $3.65 Sorry, we are currently sold out of 'Angelica gigas'.	Asclepias X tuberosa 'Gay Butterflies Mix' $2.95 Sorry, we are currently sold out of 'Asclepias X tuberosa 'Gay Butterflies Mix''.	Asclepias asperula $2.00
Asclepias cordifolia $3.65	Asclepias curassavica $1.50	Asclepias curassavica 'Apollo Orange' $2.55	Asclepias curassavica 'Apollo Yellow' $2.55
Asclepias curassavica 'Silky Deep Red' $2.85	Asclepias curassavica 'Silky Gold' $2.85	Asclepias curassavica 'Silky Mix' $2.85	Asclepias curassavica 'Silky Scarlet' $2.80
Asclepias exaltata $4.00	Asclepias fascicularis $3.95 In Stock	Asclepias hallii $3.95	Asclepias hirtella $2.95 Sorry, we are currently sold out of 'Asclepias hirtella'.
Asclepias incarnata $2.00	Asclepias incarnata 'Mixed' $2.00	Asclepias incarnata 'Cinderella' $2.95	Asclepias incarnata 'Ice Ballet' $2.00
Asclepias incarnata 'Milkmaid' $2.00	Asclepias incarnata 'Soulmate' $3.50	Asclepias physocarpa $2.99	Asclepias purpurascens $2.65 Sorry, we are currently sold out of 'Asclepias purpurascens'.
Asclepias speciosa $2.65 Sorry, we are currently sold out of 'Asclepias speciosa'.	Asclepias sullivantii $2.40	Asclepias syriaca $2.00	Asclepias tuberosa 'Hello Yellow' $3.99
Asclepias verticillata $1.70	Asclepias viridis $2.95 Sorry, we are currently sold out of 'Asclepias viridis'.	Buddleia davidii 'Butterfly Hybrids Mixed' $2.85	Buddleia davidii 'Violet Butterfly' $2.95
Buddleja saligna $2.00	Catananche caerulea 'Amour Blue' $2.45	Catananche caerulea 'Amour White' $2.00 In Stock	Cosmos bipinnatus 'Picotee Hino Maru' $1.85 Sorry, we are currently sold out of 'Cosmos bipinnatus 'Picotee Hino Maru''.
Cosmos bipinnatus 'Psyche Mix' $0.45 Sorry, we are currently sold out of 'Cosmos bipinnatus 'Psyche Mix''.	Cosmos bipinnatus 'Sea Shells Mix' $0.95	Cosmos bipinnatus 'Sensation Mix' $1.00	Cosmos sulphureus 'Cosmic Mix' $1.95 Sorry, we are currently sold out of 'Cosmos sulphureus 'Cosmic Mix''.
Echinacea angustifolia $2.00	Echinacea atrorubens $2.00	Echinacea pallida $1.55	Echinacea pallida 'Hula Dancer' $3.95
Echinacea paradoxa $2.65	Echinacea purpurea $3.00 Sorry, we are currently sold out of 'Echinacea purpurea'.	Echinacea purpurea 'Amado' $2.55 Sorry, we are currently sold out of 'Echinacea purpurea 'Amado''.	Echinacea purpurea 'Baby Swan White' $3.99 Sorry, we are currently sold out of 'Echinacea purpurea 'Baby Swan White''.
Echinacea purpurea 'Bravado' $2.00	Echinacea purpurea 'Bright Star Improved' $2.45	Echinacea purpurea 'Cygnet White' $2.45 Sorry, we are currently sold out of 'Echinacea purpurea 'Cygnet White''.	Echinacea purpurea 'Doubledecker' $3.95 In Stock
Echinacea purpurea 'Leviathan' $2.85 Sorry, we are currently sold out of 'Echinacea purpurea 'Leviathan''.	Echinacea purpurea 'Lustre Hybrids' $3.95	Echinacea purpurea 'Magnus' $2.50	Echinacea purpurea 'Prairie Splendor' $2.95
Echinacea purpurea 'Primadonna Deep Rose' $2.95	Echinacea purpurea 'Primadonna White' $2.95	Echinacea purpurea 'Ruby Star' $2.65	Echinacea purpurea 'Short Mix' $2.95
Echinacea purpurea 'White Swan' $1.90	Echinacea simulata $2.65 In Stock	Echinacea tennesseensis $2.38	Echinacea tennesseensis 'Rocky Top Hybrids' $4.95
Echinacea x hybrida 'Paradiso' $5.95 Sorry, we are currently sold out of 'Echinacea x hybrida 'Paradiso''.	Echinops bannaticus 'Blue Glow' $2.30 Sorry, we are currently sold out of 'Echinops bannaticus 'Blue Glow''.	Echinops bannaticus 'Star Frost' $3.99	Echinops ritro $1.35